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References
- ↑ Lamport Hall - Past and Present (the official guidebook). Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire: Lamport Hall Preservation Trust. 1992. 28 p.
- ↑ Betham, William (1801). "Isham of Lamport, Northamptonshire". The Baronetage of England, of the History of the English Baronets, and such Baronets of Scotland, etc. Ipswich, England: Burrell and Bransby. v. 1, p. 298–305.
- ↑ Debrett, John (1824). "Isham, of Lamport, co. Northampton". Debrett's Baronetage of England (Fifth ed.). London: G. Woodfall. v. 1, p. 104–107.
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